WARNING: I chop up mice in this one...
We have some baby screech owls in the clinic right now that are absolutely adorable. like small beaky puff balls that will make odd clicking noises at you for raw meat. I think the worst part of anything in the clinic would be cutting up the mice for these guys. First, you cut off their tails, then you slice open their stomach, fold them inside out and cut out their guts. If they are young enough, you also have to skin them, and after that, you have to cut the mouse into tiny bite-sized pieces. (Pro tip- when cutting the head of a mouse in half, for the love of god do it lengthwise. otherwise, the brains squish out the back of the head in a tube of liquid goo.)
This is the exact reason I never took any anatomy classes.
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